Between Reading Time and Syntactic/Semantic Categories

Masayuki Asahara, Sachi Kato


Abstract
This article presents a contrastive analysis between reading time and syntactic/semantic categories in Japanese. We overlaid the reading time annotation of BCCWJ-EyeTrack and a syntactic/semantic category information annotation on the ‘Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese’. Statistical analysis based on a mixed linear model showed that verbal phrases tend to have shorter reading times than adjectives, adverbial phrases, or nominal phrases. The results suggest that the preceding phrases associated with the presenting phrases promote the reading process to shorten the gazing time.
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I17-1041
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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November
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2017
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Taipei, Taiwan
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Greg Kondrak, Taro Watanabe
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IJCNLP
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Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing
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404–412
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Masayuki Asahara and Sachi Kato. 2017. Between Reading Time and Syntactic/Semantic Categories. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 404–412, Taipei, Taiwan. Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing.
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